Abortion pill is far from safe’

Thursday

Jan 3, 2013 at 6:00 AMJan 3, 2013 at 7:03 AM

By Roderick P. Murphy

Although I think all induced abortions are abhorrent, a surprising number of abortion supporters are popping up, critical of one particular type of abortion called medication abortion (the abortion pill) because of its danger to abortive women.

Planned Parenthood is also being hammered by these ordinarily supportive critics for its self-serving advocacy of this abortion method.

Despite this criticism, at the end of last year Planned Parenthood released a “study” that argues that the abortion pill is “safe.”

Planned Parenthood admits to a reported 385 “serious” complications, including at least one abortion pill-related death from 2009-2010. This phony study group consisted of two Planned Parenthood employees, one member of a Planned Parenthood advisory group, and a fourth member who receives financial compensation from Danco Laboratories, the U.S. distributor for the abortion pill, mifepristone.

According to the study’s statistics, the abortion pill failed for 1,169 women. A Dec. 20, 2012, Reuters story reported there were 385 serious complications during the study period, “including 238 who sought emergency room treatment, 135 who were admitted to the hospital, 114 who had a blood transfusion and 57 who required intravenous antibiotics.”

During the study period, one woman died from an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy after a medication abortion. Seven other women, during medication abortions, suffered serious but nonfatal complications from undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies.

Other non-Planned Parenthood abortionists and abortion advocates advise strongly against the abortion pill.

Here’s what Jenny Jerrome, a pro-abortion blogger, said about Planned Parenthood and the abortion pill:

“When they found out it was awful, why didn’t they tell us? Why didn’t the women of Planned Parenthood come out and say, ‘Oops! This is a choice, but it’s a really bad choice.’ I don’t understand. They are supposed to be on our side. They know the abortion pill is awful, yet today, they still promote it.”

ACCON, a Nebraska abortion facility, made the following statement:

“Due to the fact that there have been seven deaths in Canada and California associated with the use of Mifeprex, ACCON has stopped offering medical abortions ”

And Dr. Peter Bours, an Oregon abortionist, stated:

“After 10 years experience providing medical abortions (abortion pill), we have decided that only in rare and unusual situations is this method of abortion the best choice for a woman seeking an abortion …”

A well known Australian feminist, Germaine Greer, also opposed to the abortion pill, said the following:

“These are violently active chemicals and they have violent reactions on the organism. What is the situation in which a woman would undergo that kind of assault?”

To bring all this home, Planned Parenthood annually does approximately 638 medication abortions (the abortion pill) on Pleasant Street in Worcester. Local women abort their babies there, unaware of the likelihood of their own permanent injury, the possible danger to their lives or of the long-term effect of the toxic drugs on their bodies.

We know they kill 3,000 babies a year. Will Planned Parenthood be also adding more young mothers to their death count now?